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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am really excited that I get to read my work with Monica Wendel, Rebecca Watkins, and Meghan Nolan! Juan Mobili, Rockland County Poet Laureate put the reading together. Come to Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley on August 25th at 7 PM for an evening of teacher-poets!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My brother's sweet doggo Asta actually has TWO eyes, but alas, she cannot read. Unlike you, she cannot enjoy the just-dropped issue of one of the oldest and best lit mags on the 'Net, Eclectica. There's poetry, all kinds of prose, & a writing challenge every issue. Read it to her? Eclectica.org

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

It sure is February--but that's okay! There's a new Grist for the Mill up on The Rockland County Business Journal, warming you up with the best poetry in our beloved county. This month poet Lily Greenberg. I've got a little news in there, too. Read all about it! rcbizjournal.com/2026/02/05/2...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A gentle, snowy reminder: my poetry reading with Rich Jordan and Carol Parris Krauss is on 2/19 at 8 Eastern. Here's the ZOOM link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We rescheduled! I'm honored to be reading poems from my new book Why I Don't Take Xanax on February 18th at 8 PM Eastern US time. The registration page for the Zoom reading--that's right, you can attend from ANYWHERE--is over on the FB and I'll provide a link to sign up below. Come listen!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

New poetry book alert! Why I Don't Take Xanax, my first full collection since 2018, just came out on Kelsay Books. It's not about anti-anxiety drugs. It is about beauty and sorrow. kelsaybooks.com/products/why...

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Why I Don’t Take Xanax

Christine Potter is the poetry editor of Eclectica Magazine. She has also been a chef, a ringer of tower bells at churches, a chorister, and a high school English teacher. Her poetry has appeared in E...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Grist for the Mill, Rockland County's local poetry column features Maureen Henry this month. Have a look in the Rockland County Business Journal. rcbizjournal.com/2026/01/08/g...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Honored that my poem about mansplaining and the cosmos found a good home in Thimble Magazine! This issue's great--you should take time to enjoy ALL the poems. www.thimblelitmag.com/.../someone-... Someone Always Needs to Explain

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Someone Always Needs to Explain

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Good news! I have two poems, "More Reasons I Can't Flee the US" and "Shelter" in the new Willows Wept Review. It's a terrific winter issue, full of writing and art about nature and resilience. I'm on page 31... #willowsweptreview. #poetsofinstagram www.magcloud.com/webviewer/32...

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Issue Thirty-Nine: Winter 2026

Our winter issue dwells in deep time and lived aftermath, moving between the geologic, the historical, and the human. Brantingham’s opening suite reminds us that “you can still see the ice age if you ...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

December comes! My column in the Rockland County Business Journal features Nyack poet Julie Agoos this month. Have a look! rcbizjournal.com/2025/12/08/g...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

COVER REVEAL for my first full-length collection of poetry in way too many years, Why I Don't Take Xanax®, on Kelsay Books. You'll find my Rattle poems therein, as well as lots of poems about the 70's, drunken squirrels, and, oddly, hope. Written by a fully vaxxed poet! Out later this winter.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This lucky poet has two books coming out this fall/winter. First up is my chapbook from Bottlecap Press, Before The World Was On Fire. It's about growing up in the 60's and 70's, and being an old gal in the 20's. And how you get through everything with the power of the word.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Wednesday, October 29 at 7 PM, Pearl River Methodist Church--join six Rockland County poets who have written for a very, very long time. Julie Agoos, Tim Doyle, Maureen Henry, Wally Glickman, Brian Kates--and MOI! Thanks to Rockland Poet Laureate Juan Pablo Mobili for setting this up. Do come!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

How can you both escape the current horrors and resist them? Read Eclectica, the literary magazine with a conscience and also fabulous poetry, CNF, and fiction. And lots of other stuff. Autumn issue OUT NOW, and free for all to read. www.eclectica.org/index.html

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Local Rockland County poets face the current discouraging times with encouraging verse and soulful advice in this month's Grist for The Mill, from the Rockland County Business Journal. Link in comments.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Delighted to see my poetry column live at Rockland County Business Journal. Grist for the Mill this month is about Mary Lou Buschi, an excellent local poet. Link in the comments.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Thanks to Midwest Quarterly for including this poem about my eleventh finger (no kidding) in their summer issue!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hi, Bluesky poets and writers! I'm poetry editor at the venerable Eclectica Magazine, one of the 'net's first 'zines. General submissions for poems are just about filled up for the autumn issue, but if you've got something really good, why not shoot it our way? www.eclectica.org

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Three Poems open.substack.com/pub/wrongtur... Delighted to be included in Wrong Turn Lit today! These are all favorite poems.

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Three Poems

by Christine Potter

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Hey, we're busy reading POEMS over at Eclectica Magazine. Our Autumn issue comes out around October 1. How about trying our WORD CHALLENGE? Include the words Curio, Cider, Foil, & Dolorous in a poem of any style, and send it to us through our WORD CHALLENGE portal. No reading fee!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Did you know? Rockland County, NY, has more poets than you would believe. We have so many poets that poetry even poets it up in the Rockland County Business Journal--because poetry is the business of life. This month's column stars poet/creativity coach Mary Jo Lillian. Happy August!

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Eyes of Texas ❌👑 @twaaustin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Are you the reason?

Be the reason someone believes in good people.

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Mark Brazill 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇻🇪 🏳️‍⚧️ @markbrazill.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thus ends the “Great Experiment.” We kinda had it coming.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Bella has the antidote to neo-fascism and despair; Fancy Feast for kitties, and the newest issue of Eclectica Magazine, one of the net's OG 'zines, for hoomans. Link in comments to the best poems in forever and fab prose, too.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

New column's up about Rockland County, NY's Wally Glickman in RCBJ. Wally's delightful. Read all about his last performance at Nyack's Big Red Books. Link in comments, photo by Richard Fulco.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/06/2025

This is beyond cruel, especially for young folks who are going through it. Cutting off LGBTQ+ youth from specialized suicide prevention help is a death sentence disguised as bureaucracy. Shame on every official who signed off on this. You’re not protecting children, you’re abandoning them.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Still processing the loss of Brian Wilson. May he go with God. His hits with the Beach Boys were inescapable--and stunning. His NYT obit identifies someone else I love, Judee Sill, as a fan. She, too, had an often-tragic life. She created this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=40O8...

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Lady-O (Remastered)

YouTube video by Judee Sill - Topic

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A woman walking home alone was shot point-blank with “non-lethal” rounds fired by officers in Los Angeles. A neighbor filmed the assault and rushed to help only to be fired on and ordered back.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Rockland County, NY's monthly gift of poems to everyone: this time, Rebecca Watkins' poetry is spotlighted in Grist for the Mill--and I snuck one of my own in at the end. Link in the comments. Have a look!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ken and I didn't make it to the noontime demo at Four Corners. A big tree blew down and took out the wires near our house. But despite the weather, local patriots stood up for democracy as they do weekly in Nanuet. Link to next week's demo in the comments--and yeah, Lawler, I'm waiting, too!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/05/2025

Statement from Buona Forchetta about the ICE raid last night. 💔

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

In the cold rain outside Thayer Gate at West Point this morning, a determined band of patriots let the draft-dodger in the White House know what they thought of him speaking at West Point's Commencement. The signs say "Go Army, Defeat Fascism." Proud of my friend Nancy for representing.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Unity, Sunset, Spoon, & Moss: Use all four words in a poem, have some fun, and send it to us. Free submission, Eclectica is always free to read--good poems and literature, one of the oldest online lit mags--AND we're still reading for the summer issue in the main poetry section, too. electica.org

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Marcie Lipsitt @mlipsitt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Passing this on as I am in 1,000,000,000-%!

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

All the details. Call your reps. Write your reps. Do it now. The FBI does not get to arrest judges for doing what they are supposed to do, which is provide due process for us all.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Time to call or Resistbot all your reps. RIGHT NOW. Just do it.

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I'm attending Indivisible Rockland's event, “IROC Weekly Route 59 Rally” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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IROC Weekly Route 59 Rally · Mobilize

Weekly Rally at the Four Corners in Nanuet

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I have a poem--a rather dark one called "Flag, Rigor, Nocturne"--in the new Rise Up Review. Have a look!! riseupreview.org/christine-po...

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Eclectica Magazine, where I am poetry editor, just went live with its Spring issue. There is a ton of good writing and art therein. It's even a free read! Go get you some. www.eclectica.org

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chrispygal.bsky.social @chrispygal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So my pal Rich Jordan said I should send something to Glimpse, and excellent lit mag. Result: I'm in the new issue, and he is, plus Ted Kooser, Marge Piercy, Timothy Liu, and Dorianne Laux! This is my Bob Dylan poem:

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robynhitchcock.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Dead people represent the living in so many ways: you’re lucky if you can get your own point of view across before you’re one of them

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